An Escort is a Prostitute

and it would just be silly to pay yourself

you are one person, in a sea of humanity. The OP seems to think that the words are equivalent, and they are, in RL common usage in one very specific sense. Escort does not HAVE to mean whore, or prostitute, or escort, or Bob, and services use the word escort to dodge the bullet legally, because their "employees" don't have to engage in sex. They are merely expected to, for an additional fee. Same diff.

SL, all they are doing is getting paid for hopping on a pose ball and saying some naughty things, and taking their avatars clothes off. That's hardly real sex, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

As another example, the word "harlot" didn't mean whore or prostitute until the 17th century - it in fact referred to a vagabond, usually male. Words change meanings and add meanings. C'est la vie. Escort has added a meaning in the last decade and you just haven't looked up to notice



Oh, a Saxon word finally! Got to love the Saxon words for getting directly to the point in the fewest syllables possible!

I can't be bothered to read it all... but;

A Dancer CAN be a Stripper in the same way an escort doesn't have to be a prostitute. Not all escorts in SL have pixel sex with their customers...

And why should the whle population of SL change it for you?
As someone else said, you're a drop in the sea.

well, now I'm going to address the way I see SL as a platform.

SL is 3d internet. So, what customers are paying for at an SL "escort" service isn't functionally different from paying for a 2d adult site, with professionals starring in the webcams and chatrooms. It's not prostitution on a 2d site and its not prostitution on a 3d site, either. Just paying to watch (or in SL "play" porn and having cyber. Nothing different from what's gone on the web nearly since its inception.

The difference is that with the 3d avatar, someone can suddenly share the same "virtual" space and interact more with the other person on the other end through that virtual space, with the use of the avatar, animations, and other aids. But, still... it's just the difference from 2d to 3d, you're still not really having sex with that person on the 2d site no more than you are on the 3d site. On 2d sites they're called porn actors/actresses, I can't see why we can't call them actors/actresses here either, it's really the same. They're just "acting". Welcome to the interactive Leisure Suit Larry.

It's still watching erotica/porn/Bob, just cartoon style.

An Escort is a destroyer. Or in some cases, a light cruiser.

Caption: "Hey, Hey, Hey! Are you sometimes a dude RL?"

It's funny to see that contentwise Second Life is so much like real life. Despite the fact that the virtual world allows us to take on other personalities with different abilities, most of the residents hold on tight to the things they know in the real world. Prostitution and sex in general is a part of that too. Money is to be made and using the oldest profession possible was only a small step in SL for its residents.

As for the prostitution in SL, in whatever way I look at it, I see no harm in that fact alone. I have more problems with shooting each other with the most bizar weaponry, in or outside the world.

An extra bonus of prostitution in SL is that no harm is done to the virtual prostitute. In RL women and children are abused in 'favor' of the industry. In SL it's a personal choice.

The one thing that does bother me however, is that the mature content is now available to whoever signs up with merely an e-mail address. But that's a discussion that has been over the place already a zillion times I guess

You should be President! hmm well maybe not, how about I just give you a cookie

Thank you so much for asuming that no one would "blink an eye." My you sure don't assume at all. If you bought her all that just to have sex with her I would scream bloody murder and blink both eyes while doing it. It's the same thing. Now if you liked her, and she liked you, and you weren't just trying to buy her over, then the more power to you.

An escort is a prostitute like a doily is a napkin.

Feel free to quote me on it.

hehe that's great, I think I will.

Doilies aren't napkins? OMGSTB!!!

Way to kill a fun thread to read...oh wait it's back up now!

Why should I change for the tide? I am my own island and make up my own mind, not just going with whats popular. The one who always flows with the sea loses their sense of self.

I use prostitute rl, thats what I'll use sl.

As i said, feel free to be rude if you really want to (and if it satisfies your ego). I, on my end, will feel free to consider you a rude egomaniac.
On the other hand, if you don't know the meaning of respect, then you'll learn it the hard way sooner or later, it's not really worth it to try and teach it to you.

Sigh.................
What`s with people on sl these days..........

I know the meanig of respect, but I respect the definition too. Anyone selling sex is a prostitute.

Wow. Madison Avenue is the new Red-Light District.

Now you do? Strange, because one that does normally doesn't feel the need to stubbornly use an openly derogatory term (and telling he doesn't consider it derogatory is just a confortable excuse) just to stand out from the crowd.
But after all, if going against the tide just for the sake of it, to scream your uniqueness against the wind (because it probably doesn't show enough by itself) is what floats your boat, please, by all means continue to scream .

Prostitute is just a word, Its not derogorative in its own right. Only peoples opinions make it 'bad' or 'good.'

But go on and assume all you want - YOU are the one who considers it derogatory. Its YOU giving it that inflection.

No, the dictionary does, strange you didn't notice, for one that barks about "respecting definitions"

Ok..I give up. You just aren't getting it. THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME! Nice cars, gifts, money spent on dinner, shows, even living arrangements, etc. And no one cares. It's not illegal! It's not "in the news". Sorry I said "blink an eye". It was an expression. Sheesh. I'm sure sometimes someone would care. I mean someone somewhere in the world would care if I tied my shoelaces wrong. But I was speaking in general terms as to how one thing is LEGAL and the other is ILLEGAL, and how SILLY that is.

*sobs*

*gives up*

David. I think the reason we barked at you is because you are only making the Legal/Illegal argument. That isn't the only difference unless you are saying that a guy buying a girl a gift who eventually has sex with her is just "legal" prostitution. See? It isn't even the same game, unless you know for a fact that a girl will have sex with you if you buy her dinner and some toys, and that was your intent as well.

I know you were trying to make a point about hypocrisy, but using the example of buying gifts for a woman or an expensive dinner date that leads to sex is going to piss some of us off, given that you are using that in comparision to... whores?